Quotes About Hardship

I'm so poor I can't even pay attention.

It's a hard place this world can be. No wonder a baby cries coming in to it. Tears from the start

It struck her how eating was a comfort during a hard time because it reminded you that there had been other days, good days, when you'd eaten the same thing. Reminded you there were good days in life, when precious little else did. (268)

Recession is when a neighbor loses his job. Depression is when you lose yours.

Remember, salt, clean water, honey, and natural oils are vital when it comes to healing yourself when you are faced with tropical hardship— without medicine.

They goaded me on to unusual efforts and caused me, and those around me, considerable suffering. Of course, the surprising thing was that my increasing success did little to lessen the tension.

couldn't do the touch for Grandpa, though. He was a hard nut. You know, some people fall right through the hole in their lives.

If you've lived this long, it's because you've squashed any poetry you had in you.

Tout ça c'est des regrets qui ne font pas bouillir la marmite.

We're keeping them alive, she said. Sweetheart, the fence, the wall, is inhumane. People are dying. That's their choice,he actually said. They come here illegally, that's the chance they take. When did you get so hard? she asked, holding his face between her hands. They're human beings like us, looking for a better life for their families. You understand that, don't you? You did it for us. It's a humanitarian crises, she said. And you're part of the problem. That's why you can't sleep at night.

For Sam, growing up as worried about food and rent as his mother was, angry that everyone else had more than him, childhood hadn't been easy. His school pictures were hard to look at—he could see the worry and pain in his face, the tension in his posture. It took a hard-luck kid to know

One of the things I learned the hard way was that it doesn't pay to get discouraged. Keeping busy and making optimism a way of life can restore your faith in yourself.

One of the things I learned the hard way was that it doesn't pay to get discouraged. Keeping busy and making optimisim a way of life can restore your faith in yourself.

One of the things I learned the hard way was that it doesn't pay to get discouraged. Keeping busy and making optimism a way of life can restore you faith in yourself.

I have climbed my Alpine path with years of toil and endeavor.

If you were born to be a nail, you had to be hammered.

Course, you couldn't say hard things, not when times were already hard. He knew that much. Only music could cross the divide. The brain's hard wiring, probably, how music resonated—said everything while saying nothing at all. But he preferred to think of it in less scientific terms. Music, the hard currency of the soul.

If we fail now, we shall have forgotten in abundance what we learned in hardship: that democracy rests on faith, that freedom asks more than it gives, and that the judgment of God is harshest on those who are most favored.

At Birkin Grif's left, his seat insecure on a scruffy packhorse, Theomeris Glyn, his only armour a steel-stressed leather cap, grumbled at the cold and the earliness of the hour, and cursed the flint hearts of city girls.

Life is difficult.

Cops coming and going, keyboards clicking, phones ringing. She looked haggard. Hard. She hadn't always, Vince figured. The worry lines bracketing her eyes, her mouth, the dry skin, the chapped lips, the sense that she really didn't give a damn what she looked like—those things had been strangers to her that first day. The day her kids hadn't come home from school. Now those lines, that hardness, had made themselves at home. It looked as if they planned to stay awhile. This shouldn't have

For every remote miss who becomes stronger, there are countless near misses who are crushed by what they have been through. There are times and places, however, when all of us depend on people who have been hardened by their experiences.

We all know that successful people come from hardy seeds. But do we know enough about the sunlight

They painted one another and painted next to one another and supported one another emotionally and financially, and today their paintings hang in every major art museum in the world. But in the 1860s, they were struggling. Monet was broke. Renoir once had to bring him bread so that he wouldn't starve. Not that Renoir was in any better shape. He didn't have enough money to buy stamps for his letters. There were virtually no dealers interested in their paintings.